If election frontrunner Lee Jae-myung is elected, Sejong city could replace Seoul as the centre of political power.

South Korea has rapidly developed into a thriving modern economy in recent decades, and it is now home to more than 50million people and ... has a "planned capital" - Sejong City.

Dozens of mostly young people have been left dead in a crowd crush at Halloween festivities in South Korea's capital city of Seoul - with more than 1,700 emergency workers deployed to the scene. ...

SEOUL, South Korea — A driver whose car struck pedestrians waiting at a crowded intersection in South Korea’s capital, killing nine people ... 60s from Ansan, a city just south of Seoul ...

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia. The country is home to almost 52 million people and uses the South Korean won as its currency. Its capital city, Seoul, is ...